Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years.